GALLERY:  00:13 17 October 2009

This week, astronomers spotted a faint plume of material lofted above the moon by the impact of NASA's LCROSS mission and strange shapes created by the Martian wind

BOOKS & ARTS:  19:00 16 October 2009  | 1 comment

A fine history, Nature's Ghosts by Mark Barrow shows how far we've come from Thomas Jefferson's belief that mammoths still roamed the Earth

18:00 16 October 2009

Today's stories on newscientist.com, at a glance, including: how to solve the secrets of structure, a camera to record your whole life, and how to give a fly a false memory

INTERVIEW:  16:51 16 October 2009  | 9 comments

A bike and a "little drinks party in the lab" is enough for the molecular biologist named joint winner of the prize in chemistry last week

14:41 16 October 2009  | 12 comments

People were given a fake painkiller but didn't feel pain – and for the first time, an fMRI scanner saw their pain-related nerves stay quiet

COMMENT AND ANALYSIS:  14:37 16 October 2009  | 36 comments

No law governs the ownership of lunar territory. Will we see the same scramble for territory that carved up Antarctica, asks William Cullerne Brown

13:10 16 October 2009  | 19 comments

Worn around the neck, it records every minute of your life – which could help people with memory problems, or who just want to "lifelog"

FEATURE:  12:10 16 October 2009  | 15 comments

Crystal structures explain the behaviour of everything from bone to gemstones – but why do they take the shapes they do? We might have cracked it at last

BOOKS & ARTS:  22:00 15 October 2009  | 10 comments

From physics to biology to neuroscience, Time by Eva Hoffman poetically explores the many faces of the mysterious dimension

18:55 15 October 2009  | 41 comments

Weeks before NASA's LCROSS mission hit the moon on Friday, some scientists predicted the impact might not be visible, and others questioned the mission's logic

18:19 15 October 2009  | 16 comments

Fruit flies with brains genetically engineered to respond to light learned to avoid certain smells as if they had experienced pain

18:00 15 October 2009

Today's stories on newscientist.com, at a glance, including: how the birth of a mountain chain caused a mass extinction, the first observation of "magnetricity", and proof that your bullying boss really is an idiot

18:00 15 October 2009  | 3 comments

The sound of something getting closer increases the sensitivity of the visual part of your brain – before you're even conscious of hearing it

GALLERY:  17:13 15 October 2009

See all 19 winners of the 10th Wellcome Images awards for images of medicine, social history, healthcare and biology.

IN BRIEF:  15:29 15 October 2009  | 18 comments

The birth of the US mountain chain may have led to a major ice age and a mass extinction

15:03 15 October 2009  | 16 comments

Stinging cells can be used as tiny needles to inject drugs into the skin – sea anemone face creams should be available to buy next year

14:28 15 October 2009  | 36 comments

Psychologists show that people turn nasty when influence and incompetence collide

THIS WEEK:  14:17 15 October 2009  | 36 comments

Lobbying has led to Congress considering tariffs on developing nations, which could be a deal-breaker at December's climate change talks in Copenhagen

UPFRONT:  07:00 15 October 2009  | 12 comments

The Millennium Seed Bank has reached its initial target of collecting 10 per cent of the world's known wild plant species

21:28 14 October 2009  | 34 comments

Just as the flow of electrons produces electrical current, streaming magnetic 'charges' generate magnetic current – nano-scale computer memory could be on the horizon

18:00 14 October 2009  | 1 comment

Today's stories on newscientist.com, at a glance, including: how your smartphone could rat you out, the first shots fired in the war on booze, and some very creepy macaques

IN BRIEF:  18:00 14 October 2009  | 12 comments

Virtual reality created specially for mice could help explain how the brain creates internal maps

INTERVIEW:  18:00 14 October 2009  | 8 comments

After a distinguished career studying human evolution, he quit to fight for conservation in Africa. The two decades since haven't softened him

THIS WEEK:  18:00 14 October 2009  | 41 comments

Something disrupted the rings 25 years ago, creating a pattern like the grooves on a vinyl record – and the mystery is only getting deeper

THIS WEEK:  18:00 14 October 2009  | 74 comments

Alcohol abuse is the fifth leading cause of premature death in the world today. Now the World Health Organization is trying to stamp it out